Scanned on 19 October 2026 at 00:28 UTC
As of , shoebill.finance has a GDPR compliance score of 50/100 with 6 pre-consent tracking violations detected.
Only Privacy Score 100 means full compliance. These violations mean that before you could even click the Cookie Consent banner, this website already collected your personal data and shared it with third parties. Learn why this matters (our blog) →
Who is responsible? The website owner is solely responsible for these violations and in general often benefits monetarily (directly or indirectly) from collecting and sharing your data without your consent.
No consent platform recognised
The site may use a custom or unrecognised banner. This is informational and does not affect the score.
A tag manager loading tracking scripts before the visitor has given consent.
Collects usage statistics (pages visited, clicks, session duration) without consent.
These are fonts, embeds, and other resources loaded from external servers. While they serve a legitimate purpose, they share your visitors' IP addresses with third parties before consent.
Low-severity concerns: external fonts, empty tag containers, WebSocket connections, and third-party storage.
Services and cookies that comply with GDPR requirements. No consent needed.
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shoebill.finance has a GDPR compliance score of 50/100.
A score between 50 and 79 indicates moderate GDPR compliance issues. Analytics trackers or advertising scripts are likely loading before user consent, which may result in regulatory attention.
15 trackers detected loading before user consent:
Legal basis: This violates ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3) and CNIL Decisions SAN-2020-012 and SAN-2025-005. Tag managers that load tracking scripts before the visitor has chosen let those trackers run without consent. The CNIL has fined companies for trackers that ran before consent, including Google (€100 million, December 2020) and SHEIN (€150 million, September 2025), and in March 2025 the Hanover Administrative Court (10 A 5385/22) held that Google Tag Manager itself needs consent under the German law implementing Article 5(3).
Legal basis: This violates GDPR Article 6(1) and LG München I (Case 3 O 17493/20, 20 January 2022). Loading fonts from an external server sends the visitor's IP address to that server. On 20 January 2022 the Munich Regional Court held that a dynamic IP address is personal data for the website operator, and that passing it to Google without consent could not be justified by legitimate interest, because the fonts could be self-hosted. It ordered the operator to stop and to pay the claimant €100 in damages. Self-hosting fonts avoids the issue.
This GDPR compliance scan of shoebill.finance was performed by GDPR Scanner, a pre-consent privacy scanning tool. The scan captures all trackers, cookies, and third-party scripts that load before a user clicks any consent button.
Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), websites must obtain explicit consent before processing personal data. Any tracker or cookie that fires before consent is a potential violation of EU privacy law.
A privacy score of 100/100 means the website loads zero trackers and zero tracking cookies before the user gives consent. This is the standard required by GDPR Article 5(1)(a) and Article 7.
Essential cookies (session management, security tokens) and first-party functional cookies do not incur penalties, as they are covered by the legitimate interest legal basis. See an example: playhth.com scores 100/100.
Legal basis: This violates GDPR Article 6(1)(a) and ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3). Analytics trackers read information from the visitor's device and send it to the analytics provider together with the visitor's IP address, which can be personal data under the GDPR. The ePrivacy Directive (Article 5(3)) requires consent before that happens unless it is strictly necessary for a service the visitor asked for. Analytics generally does not qualify; only narrowly configured audience measurement can, under national guidance such as the CNIL's.
Legal basis: This violates ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3) and GDPR Article 6(1)(a). WebSocket connections to third-party servers send visitor data, including the IP address, to an external server as soon as they open, and keep a live channel open for more. When third-party code opens the connection before consent, Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive requires consent unless the connection is strictly necessary for a service the visitor asked for.
Legal basis: This violates ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3) and GDPR Article 6(1)(a). WebSocket connections to third-party servers send visitor data, including the IP address, to an external server as soon as they open, and keep a live channel open for more. When third-party code opens the connection before consent, Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive requires consent unless the connection is strictly necessary for a service the visitor asked for.
Legal basis: This violates ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3) and GDPR Article 5(1)(a). Hidden iframes load third-party content the visitor cannot see, often for tracking. Where the iframe stores or reads information on the device, Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive requires consent, and loading it invisibly sits badly with the transparency principle in Article 5(1)(a) of the GDPR.
No tracking cookies set before consent were counted as violations.
shoebill.finance has 6 GDPR compliance violations with 15 trackers loading before user consent. This level of non-compliance carries meaningful regulatory risk.
Under GDPR Article 83(5), fines can reach €20 million or 4% of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher. Cookie consent failures are also fined under national law: the CNIL fined Google €150 million (2021), Microsoft €60 million (2022) and SHEIN €150 million (2025).
Implementation of a properly configured Consent Management Platform (CMP) that blocks all non-essential scripts until consent is obtained is the recommended remediation step.
shoebill.finance scores 50/100 with 6 violation(s) detected. Trackers or cookies were found loading before user consent.
Our scan detected 18 tracker(s) loading before consent, including Google Tag Manager (active - loading: Google Analytics), Google Fonts, Github Pages.
shoebill.finance has a GDPR compliance score of 50/100 as of 19 October 2026. A score of 100 means no trackers or cookies that require consent were detected before consent. shoebill.finance currently has 6 violation(s) affecting its score.
shoebill.finance should implement a Consent Management Platform (CMP) that blocks all non-essential trackers and cookies until the visitor gives explicit consent. This includes configuring tag managers like Google Tag Manager to use consent-aware triggers, self-hosting external fonts, and auditing all third-party scripts. After making changes, re-scan with GDPR Scanner to check the result.